Why oh why do people look to teachers?

You should be able to read the New Testament scriptures without a teacher.

This man is a pervert. Yet countless people flock to him.

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Mark Driscoll Kicked Out Of His Own Organization

by Sandy Simpson Aug 18, 2014

Driscoll was kicked out of the Acts 29 Network church planting group, his own organization, for his “ungodly behavior”.

“Seattle megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll has been removed from a church-planting network of more than 500 churches he helped found after a pattern of “ungodly and disqualifying behavior.” (Religion News Service, by Sarah Pulliam Balley, Huffington Post, 8/9/14)

His behavior is not the only problem with this guy. Check out his false teachings and behavior over the years.

Driscoll taught Noah was not a righteous man

Mark Driscoll further confuse the Gospel message. In Driscoll’s so-called defense of the biblical account of Noah, he says that the Noah account was an example of God’s grace and that it had nothing to do with Noah’s righteousness or even Noah’s faith in God. And in fact, in a sermon by Mark Driscoll, he says that Noah was “bad all of the time” (video clip). This is a commonly believed and twisted view of God and salvation that says God chooses some and rejects others, based on nothing more than God’s own personal whim rather than on one’s faith or trust in God (“without faith it is impossible to please [God]

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope ofthe glory of God. (Romans 5:2)

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.(Ephesians 2:8)Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. (Genesis 6:9) Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he. (Genesis 6:22)And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. (Genesis 7:1)The word of the Lord came again to me, saying, Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. (Ezekiel 14:12-14)By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. (Hebrews 11:7)And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (2 Peter 2:5)

Driscoll warned of false teachers then participates with others

While correctly warning about false teachers, he not only soft soaps figures such as Emergent Church author Dan Kimball and the author of “Blue Like Jazz”, but joins forces with the utmost of deceivers and false teachers such as Robert Schuller and Rick Warren. Warren’s butchering of Scripture, redefinition of Christianity based on consumerist philosophy and psychology, Warren’s public back peddle on homosexuality, and his global PEACE plan calling for partnering with Muslims, Hindus, etc. is an absolute seduction from hell. No Christ â No Peace. God’s Peace Plan is the Gospel (Isaiah 52: 7, Ephesians 6: 15, Luke 2:10-14)(http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/church-issues/popular-teachers/mark-driscoll)

• He is an admitted curser (pp. 47, 50, 71, 97, 99, 128, 130). He is known as the cussing pastor in Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz (pp. 96-97) and there is no indication in this book that Driscoll has reformed his foul language.

• He is also ruthless. Driscoll has a mission (to ultimately grow a church of 10,000 attendees – p. 164) and any who does not fit into that mission is dispensable (pp. 45, 63, 112, 131, 135, 148-150) or fired (pp. 146-147, 196). As Mars Hill grows to megachurch status, one has to wonder what has become of the multitude of people harmed in the process, especially as Driscoll admits his fits of anger when not pleased (pp 99, 128, 130).

• Separation from worldly activities does not fit Driscoll’s missional strategy. He speaks often of drinking and frequenting bars (e.g. pp. 51, 131, 146), buying lottery tickets (p. 58), admiring and learning from foul-mouthed entertainers such as Chris Rock (pp. 43, 70), stealing a sound system (p. 62) and setting himself up for sexual temptation (which he resisted) (p. 128).

• Purity in the church is inconsistent. While Driscoll certainly desires to see Christians live morally, he is willing to use unbelievers in ministry, especially in his worship and concert bands (pp. 68, 158) It is one thing to reach out to those involved in such sins; it is another to use them in ministry.

• He has an unbiblical understanding of demonic activity and recommends the books of C. Fred Dickason and Neil T. Anderson on spiritual warfare (pp. 122, 123, 184).

• His church has grown on the back of questionable activities such as non-Christian rock concerts (p. 40), hip-hop and punk-rock worship (pp. 93, 100, 126).

• While Driscoll has distanced himself from the more radical emergent movement (pp. 21-23), he is still associated with the Leadership Network (pp. 7, 82) which promotes emergent.

• He misses the stigma of the cross when he writes, “In our day, this would be akin to a junkie’s needle or a pervert’s used condom becoming the world’s most beloved symbol and adorning homes, churches, and bodies” (p. 18). The cross was a symbol of execution and death not perversion and addiction.

• Could he really believe that “today, a few billion people worship Jesus as their only God because they, like Paul, have realized that Jesus died for them personally” (Gal 2:20)? Such a definition of “Christians” would have to include all Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and cult members in the body of Christ.

• Driscoll’s understanding of spiritual warfare is deficient. For one thing he believes in generational demons (p. 41). Additionally, he and Breshears need to sharpen their understanding of demonic possession. Demons can attack and tempt Christians but they cannot indwell them. The authors attempt to defend a convoluted view of spiritual warfare based upon a definition found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary rather than on the Greek word daimonizomai. This leads to faulty and unbiblical advice on how to defend oneself from demons (pp. 53-54).

• Driscoll believes we must confess sins committed against us (pp. 153-158). In doing this it mightbecome necessary to uncover some repressed memories and make them known to others (p. 155). These steps will lead to Jesus purifying us from all unrighteousness—including the “filth that has come upon your soul by the failures of [others]” (p. 156). But Scripture does not teach that we are spiritually defiled by the sins of others, although we may suffer great pain. Nor does the Bible teach us to confess the sins that others have committed against us. Also, repressed memories are an invention of Freud, not taught in Scripture as Jesus said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man” (Mark 7:20).

• I would disagree with Driscoll’s unsubstantiated remark that “more fundamental Christians bypass the self-emptying of the eternal Son” (p. 200). No one I know within fundamental ranks minimizes the human side of the incarnation.

• Driscoll levels a broad and unsubstantiated criticism when he writes, “Apart from reading dead guys like the Puritans and other guys who read those dead guys, such as my hero Charles Hadden Spurgeon and friend John Piper, you will be unlikely to find the themes [glorifying God, walking in the Spirit, the church and humble suffering] expounded in any great detail in our present age of Christianity Lite” (p. 202). While I agree there are many insipid, weak-kneed forms of Christianity being propagated today, Driscoll paints with far too wide a brush. There are scores of “live” guys preaching and writing about the true message of the cross. And many of these do not emerge from the Puritan stream only but base their cross-theology in the Scriptures where it belongs. …

Driscoll has put down the Rapture

Mark Driscoll – The Rapture is Dumb: “One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.” (Vintage Jesus, p. 44).

Driscoll promotes contemplative prayer

Presently, on Driscoll’s website, The Resurgence (see whois info) is an article titled “How to Practice Meditative Prayer.” The article is written by an Acts 29 (Driscoll’s network of churches) pastor, Winfield Bevins. A nearly identical article on Driscoll’s site, also by Bevins, is titled Meditative Prayer: Filling the Mind. Both articles show a drawing of a human brain. In this latter article, Bevins recognizes contemplative mystic pioneer Richard Foster:

What do we mean by meditative prayer? Is there such a thing as Christian meditation? Isn’t meditation non-Christian? According to Richard Foster, “Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind. Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind” (Celebration of Discipline). Rather than emptying the mind we fill it with God’s word. We must not neglect a vital part of our Judeo-Christian heritage simply because other traditions use a form of meditation. (http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=1640)

Driscoll calls Christians “Little Christs”

“Vintage Jesus”, Driscoll – Page 120: “To be a Christian is to be a “little Christ.” In fact, the name Christian was originally a term of mockery given to us by our enemies. But Jesus said that to be a Christian is to pick up our cross and die. Die to sin, die to pride, die to comfort, die to anything and everything that fails to glorify God alone as the object of our affection and the source of our joy. With great insight, Walter Wink has said that killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it. At the cross, what was intended as eradication was used by God for multiplication, and we pray that you would always be loyal to Jesus, our hero, and his revolution.”

Driscoll employs vulgarity and explicit sexual advice from the pulpit

“Driscoll’s vulgarity draws media attention” – Baptist Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–An in-depth New York Times Magazine feature on a controversial Seattle pastor has generated a new wave of debate about vulgarity in the pulpit.

“Who Would Jesus Smack Down,” a 3,200-word profile of Mark Driscoll, founding pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Wash., focused on Driscoll’s Calvinist theology but, like most secular reporting on the Seattle pastor, began with a vignette on his “racy” sermon topics and casual clothes. . . .

On the heels of the New York Times profile, Christian talk show personality Ingrid Schleuter criticized Driscoll for a series of explicit “sex advice” posts on the Mars Hill Church blog — material appropriate only for married couples but available to any visitor, including children. Schleuter also castigated Driscoll for linking the blog to a website, christiannymphos.org, “which features articles on how a Christian wife can turn herself into a dominatrix, the glories of an-l and or-l sex, and the use of sex toys.”

“At a time when American young people are hit in the face with graphic sexuality in every facet of our culture, the church should be a safe haven where the sacredness and privacy of the act of marriage is respected by pastors,” Schleuter said in a press release. “Those with sexual issues need to receive private counseling — not sex seminars in a church auditorium.

“For generations, Christian pastors have managed to convey the Scripture’s teachings on fornication, adultery and the beauty of sexuality within marriage without sullying and cheapening it” Schleuter added. “Mark Driscoll is a sad product of our times. While waving his orthodox doctrinal credentials, he has simultaneously embraced the spirit of the age when it comes to his treatment of sex. In the process, he is pornifying the church and only adding to the moral squalor of our culture.” Click here to read this entire article.

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Friends, you should have never been deceived by Victoria Osteen and her pagan husband Joel. The reason you are or were, is you do not know the New Testament. You listen to Jezebel and her husband because they make you feel good. You do not know that you are being led by the enemies of God. False teachers.

It is foolish to trust any teacher if you do not know the New Testament scriptures. PLEASE DO NOT TRUST MAN WITH YOUR SOUL AND YOUR FAMILIES SOULS. The video below clearly shows "It is all about VICTORIA" and the demon spirit guiding her pagan words wants it to be "all about you".

Per Victoria Osteen: "When you worship (and obey) God, we're not doing it for God, we're doing it for ourself, because that's what makes God happy!". This is blasphemous! 34“You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart." Matthew 12 NASBWhy are Joel and Victoria able to captivate so many? The Apostle Paul tells us:3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy NASG

What Victoria said is a MYTH. That is what she and Joel teach, MYTHS. 33“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit. 34“You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good?For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.Matthew 12 NASB

Victoria Osteen and her smiling, spineless husband standing beside her, are in direct opposition to Jesus and His disciples. Victoria's god is not the God of the bible. Victoria and Joel do not even teach the Gospel. There is no question that Victoria is "doing everything for herself" and she is totally ignorant of the scriptures quoted further on.

Have you:

Repented. Turned away from your sins to the Father.

Believed and confessed to others that Jesus is Lord is your Lord.

Been water baptized

Received the Holy Spirit? Pray to the Father that He will fill you with His Holy Spirit.

AND read the scriptures with a passion to learn what Jesus and the disciples told us to do and what they told us not to do. Do not trust man. Surely, do not trust Joel and Victoria. They are totally void of understanding and are leading countless souls to hell. This will become clear as you learn the New Testament scriptures and stop listening to preachers. We are in apostasy.

Scriptures concerning the Osteens.

1 Corinthians 15 NASB1Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, 2by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.1 John 2 NASB15Do not love the world nor the things in the world.If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 17The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

2 Timothy 3 NASB1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power;Avoid such men as these.6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

2 Corintihans 11 NASB3But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.4For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted,you bear this beautifully. (you put up with this without a care)wm

Hebrews 10 NASB26For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,27but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THEFURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.28Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.29How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?30For we know Him who said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY.” And again, “THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE.”31It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

2 Peter 2 NASB17These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved. 18For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires,by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,19promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption;for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved. 20For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.21For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them. 22It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

Romans 14 NASB7For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; 8for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.Philippians 1 NASB21For to me to liveis Christ, and to die is gain.Matthew 16 NASB24Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. 25“For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27“For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THENREPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HISDEEDS.Luke 17 NASB

7“Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down to eat’? 8“But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’?9“He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?10“So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”

Romans 8 NASB Make us happy36Just as it is written, “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”Philippians 2 NASB12So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;13for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work forHisgood pleasure.

14Do all things without grumbling or disputing;15so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, 16holding fast the word of life,so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.17But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

Jude NASB3Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.4For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.5Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.6And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day, 7just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.8Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.9But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10But these men revile the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. 11Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; 13wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.14It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, 15to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.” 16These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.17But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, 18that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” 19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.20But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22And have mercy on some, who are doubting; 23save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

America's complicated relationship with Muslim nations and the religion of Islam is clearly evident in its relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A long time U.S. ally in the Middle East, the average American is no doubt unaware of the extreme levels to which Islam is practiced and regarded in this oil-rich nation.

For those who were unaware, the sentencing of a liberal blogger, himself a Saudi citizen, should help shed light on the extreme regard in which Islam is held in the Kingdom. While the monarchy in the Kingdom has long maintained a close relationship with the United States, it is clear that it remains a country run with the same sort of radical Islamist beliefs that the U.S. has gone to war with in Iraq and Afghanistan for the past decade.

Blogger Sentenced

Raif Badawi is the co-founder of the Saudi Arabian Liberals group and runs their website. He is a well-known thinker and blogger who uses the web encourage freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia. That freedom of expression has, however, made him a target of the radical Islamists in control of the country and now the government is looking to make an example of him.

What, you might ask, are his crimes? He spoke about Islam in a less than flattering light online and has now been sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashings for the crime of expressing his free thought and opinion.

Timeline of Events

The government in Saudi Arabia first became aware of Badawi in 2012. He was arrested in June 2012 in connection to the cybercrimes, as well as for the crime of disobeying his father. He was originally imprisoned and sentenced to seven years and 600 lashes for violating cybercrime laws in the Kingdom, but in December 2013 those charges were overturned after appeal and his case sent to the Jeddah Criminal court for review. Initially, Badawi had been charged with apostasy which is punishable by death in the Kingdom.

Following his retrial the sentence was made worse as Badawi was handed the aforementioned 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashings. Additionally, he has been fined roughly $266,000 for his deeds. Amnesty International has called the entire verdict outrageous and has been calling for Badawi's punishment to be overturned.

Origin of Dispute

Saudi Arabia has been fighting to contain the kind of radical Islam that has engulfed neighboring states in the Middle East from bleeding across its borders. A number of laws have been introduced in recent years to clamp down on extremism, but it has given the government license to prosecute even peaceful forms of dissent.

Going Forward

Badawi's punishment is open for appeal, should he choose, but given the outcome of his last appeal it may only make matters worse. His last appeal garnered the stiffer punishment, and his lawyer now finds himself in prison as well. Waleed Abu al-Khair was Badawi's original appeals attorney, and is currently a guest of Riyadh's Malaz Prison on charges of breaking allegiance with the king. He has also been charged with sedition and appeared in court in April to face those charges.

- See more at: http://www.gnd.com/islamic-extremism-hiding-in-plain-sight-saudi-arabia-sentences-blogger-for-bashing-islam.php?ref=ob&ad_id=25579949#sthash.nGmZEl4O.dpufPlease see the "WARNINGS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT". I spent years reading and gathering the warnings in the New Testament. I put them together and started posting them with 1 Corinthians on June 12, 2014. I then went through all of the books in the New Testament. They can change your mind. They can change your life!We have been so deceived by the preachers and teachers.